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Re:How to get better at painting without painting anything (... by varjag on Tuesday July 06, 2021 @04:38AM (#27745610)
Right now there are students who have trouble opening up algebraic expressions or forget to cancel negatives in multiplication while doing exercises on advanced concepts. All for lack of practice.
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Re:How to get better at painting without painting anything (... by bigbillheck on Tuesday July 06, 2021 @05:39AM (#27746034)
Those kinds of kids were common 10, 20, 50, 100, and more years ago.
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Re:How to get better at painting without painting anything (... by varjag on Tuesday July 06, 2021 @05:41AM (#27746056)
Now they are ubiquitous.

Downplaying it to 'dumb ones' is not helpful when they can solve polynomials without much trouble but are getting burned on concepts that should have been drilled down properly in middle school.

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Re:How to get better at painting without painting anything (... by bigbillheck on Tuesday July 06, 2021 @08:50AM (#27747785)
> Now they are ubiquitous

They were saying that back in the day as well: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Why_Johnny_Can%27t_Add

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